Real Northumberland Murky: £28M to be slashed by Tory Council this year after wasting millions and driving fear through communities and people?

This week's park bench meeting and our round up of e-searches brought us the codgers band round to open thinking regarding what's going on behind the closed doors of the ‘Morpeth dependent party’ led by panicky Sanderson and get me a safer seat than this Richi-rich Wearmouth.

With their enemies bringing siege engines up towards the very gates of Loansdean and the snorting chargers slavering and snotting as the Morpeth dependent members are sideswiped by their own team and the mercenaries', opposition members from the north, south-east and west lands of this fabulous scenic county.

Questions are raging all over social media regarding a recent review of a report from the external auditor Mazars, asking why the independent chair of the audit committee has decided to leave. Those reasons are being speculated on by interested people sitting outside the Krall which Morpeth’s County Hall at Loansdean has become.

According to social media:

‘Allegedly Councillors who sat in silence through the meeting were informed through dodgy issued legal advice that to ask a question about the administrations Councillors involvement in International Health Trading would lead to their home being sequestered through the courts’. Striking fear into the most ardently brazen elected members. The money from sequestration is probably planned to be used to pay the legal insurance premiums which have had a real hammer since 2017 as the public purse has been stretched beyond compliance on behalf of ruling speculative decision makers in the name of business planning.

The alleged dodgy legal wranglers who have come from God knows where but faithfully employed by the Morpeth two, or probably cardboard cutouts of the Morpeth two, which its believed will be standing in shops dotted around the Town in a similar fashion to the famous ‘John Smith Man’, the action described above and the shameless laughter and chatter on the audit committee’s youtube release for the open part of the meeting. Knowing this bullying atmosphere would be well developed during the meeting possibly stopped many Councillors elected to represent the people from attending this particular audit committee meeting ; A meeting where all should have been revealed and for those who did brave this very sticky web it is believed they feared the worst through those threats and kept shtum. Councillors do not stand for election to represent local people to feel afraid to ask the questions their constituents want answer too but, losing your home? is just a bit too far for many.

Not a great way for democracy or is that duckocracy? To prevail as the seriousness of this trickery, if social media can be relied upon, was to turn Morpeth into Dodge City when it came to exposing the unlawfulness and lawlessness which prevails in the vicinity of Loansdean empowering the cowboys to stick two fingers up to the second national auditor (Mazars) in the last six years as they had previously lost EY in similar circumstances as the ultra-right paramours had to be correct and the experts wrong, illustrating that the social rules of decorum, etiquette and truthfulness matter not to the drivers of the wagon train brought in to cover over the clouds of deceit in the veil of mendacity created through the application of the ‘Pipers Tune’ being paid by the bruegaire.

So how will the bruegaire react to the facts that they have and have been shown they are letting down the populous at a time when they need to progress to the oche and throw 180. Instead they still wish to retain the vertiginous goat shelf of the chamois while letting their acidic droppings rain down on the local folk below through the lack of support for projects they began since 2017 and will now abandoned gaily, such as youth housing in Berwick where exposure of their actions caused chaos, dualling of the A1, A battery plant at Cambois, the secrecy of Cabinet meeting where huge Council failures are discussed in private and milder failures spoke about in public but the failures prevail and will prevail ever more as spend get centred in Morpeth and everyone and everywhere else is treated as second rate.

Spend is also on everyone's lips as the County Council languishes in the fact that swathes of the Counties residents pay more than 10% of their income on Council Tax and they are right to ask on ‘Fix my Street and letters to local newspapers why services can’t be delivered or resumed in any fashion close to how they were delivered as they had been before the the knowledge that Northumberland County Council had the fifth largest number of reported potholes and have had to fork out £millions in compensation as a pothole claim reaps vast rewards for motorists.

Lawyers who can also guarantee to love Northumberland County Council as a source of wealth when planning appeal failures rack up £millions in compensatory payments for developers and their legal advisors. Developers like the profit in compensation as they then don’t need to expose their liquid assets and cash to build at all and simply need to wait for the next turndown of a planning decision from Councillors and then their spouses can choose better clothes at Fenwicks than bookmakers wives and it takes some dosh to top that.

Then of course we just also look at the now famous gagging payments in the form of confidentiality agreements to leaving employees in an attempt to stop the release of information into the public domain. How much have they sucked onto your Council Tax payments?

Over the years since Cameron began his austerity program, banks, financial institutions, the LGA and the Taxpayers alliance have come up with figures and formulas for Council cuts which range from £10m in cuts costs £20m in reality, up to £10M in cuts costing £30m in real terms.

The average is 2.5 times the figure Councils need to achieve as redundancy payments, HP on pension schemes, gagging payments and a myriad of other connivences to make people leave their jobs. This news from these experts means that under the current administration who have decided they must lose £28M from their business, and Councils are a business, Northumberland will have to spend £70M to reach their target cuts figure,

Reaching that figure in cuts that have been put back twice already from this administration will mean that ordinary people will suffer as social services, education, grounds maintenance, highways repairs, cash to go towards capital projects, affordable homes, social housing, and levelling up programs will all be slashed and you will never be told about it or given an explanation why, as secrecy is the norm for this Council and secrecy will be retained at whatever cost it is to society as a whole.